Inhalt: | Introduction : the German foundation, the multifaceted expansion / Anne O. Albert, Noah S. Gerber, and Michael A. Meyer -- Chapter 1. Between past and future : European Jewish scholarship and national temporalities, 1845-1889 / Irene Zwiep -- Chapter 2. German Wissenschaft des Judentums and the late nineteenth-century development of Hungarian Jewish studies / Katalin Franciska Rac -- Chapter 3. Wissenschaft des Judentums exported to America : the case of Gotthard Deutsch / Michael A. Meyer -- Chapter 4. Forging a new "empire of knowledge" : Jewish scholarship under Soviet patronage / Deborah Yalen -- Chapter 5. Between assonance and assimilation : literature as a hyphen in the Wissenschaft des Judentums / Clémence Boulouque -- Chapter 6. Christian contributions to Jewish scholarship in Italy / Asher Salah -- Chapter 7. Integrating national consciousness into the study of Jewish history / Yitzhak Conforti -- Chapter 8. South Asian frameworks for European good intentions : Hyderabad, Karachi, and Jewish orientalism / Hanan Harif -- Chapter 9. Saul Lieberman and Yemenite Jewry / Noah S. Gerber. "The birth of modern Jewish studies can be traced to the nineteenth-century emergence of the Wissenschaft des Judentums, a movement to promote a scholarly approach to the study of Judaism and Jewish culture. Frontiers of Jewish Scholarship offers a collection of essays examining how Wissenschaft extended beyond its original German intellectual contexts and was transformed into a diverse, global field. From the early expansion of the new scholarly approaches into Jewish publications across Europe to their translation and reinterpretation in the twentieth century, the studies included here collectively trace a path through largely neglected subject matter, newly recognized as deserving attention"-- |
